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Black Hat: Cyber-espionage is expanding

Black Hat: Cyber-espionage is expanding

By:  Howard Solomon  On: 25 Jul 2012 For: Computing Canada Creator
 

ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: A report presented at the annual security conference says government cyber-spying has the unexpected result of legitimizing the activity by others

The annual Black Hat conference brings out the worst of the Internet, if you know what I mean. It's the place where experts on information security gather to exchange notes on how bad information security is around the world.
The good news is attendees (well most of them, we hope) are dedicated to sharing ways organizations can do something about it.

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This year's conference is in Las Vegas, where, as this report details, attendees learned that not only are governments involved in cyber-spying, so are private security companies. One paper at the conference identified 200 families of custom malware. The problem, the author says, is that as more governments engage in cyber-espionage it legitimizes the activity for other.
 
Who do you trust? No one.
 

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Howard Solomon Howard Solomon I'm assistant editor of ComputerWorld Canada covering network infrastructure, communications and government IT issues. An IT journalist  since 1997, I've written ... more

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